Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes  

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"All (romantic) poetry and music is in this demand: I love you, je t'aime, ich liebe dich!

But if by some miracle the jubilatory answer should be given, what might it be? What is the taste of fulfillment?

Heine:

Doch wenn du sprichst: Ich liebe dich!
So muss ich weinen bitlerlich:

I stagger, I fall, / weep bitterly.

[...]

So I decide that the amorous apostrophe, though I repeat and rehearse it day by day through the course of time, will somehow recover, each time I utter it, a new state. Like the Argonaut renewing his ship during its voyage without changing its name, the subject in love will perform a long task through the course of one and the same exclamation."

--Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes (1975) by Roland Barthes

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Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes (1975) is a book by Roland Barthes. It features the famous "I love you" passage cited in The Argonauts.

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